Mainstream Media (Keywords: Indigenous, Australia)

Pro Bono Australia
Aboriginal Employment Reaches Significant Milestone in NT
Pro Bono Australia
Diversity Council Australia CEO, Lisa Annese, said it was a “huge step forward”. “The idea is that under the principle of self determination that individual Indigenous Australians take control of their own lives and create policy and outcomes that are ...

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ABC Online
Indigenous rangers on the frontline of coral bleaching in remote Australia
ABC Online
In April this year Indigenous rangers from the Crocodile Islands received an alarming photograph of a coral reef off the coast of Arnhem Land. Leonard Bowaynu, who has fished the same reef since he was teenager, had seen small scattered patches of ...

The Guardian
Federal election 2016: 'Be brave' on indigenous treaty
The Australian
Aboriginal educator Chris Sarra has laid down a blunt challenge to Malcolm Turnbull on treaty talks, telling a packed awards ball that indigenous Australia is ready to begin discussions if the Prime Minister and other leaders have the “courage” for it ...
We Indigenous people are stronger than we believe, and smarter than we knowThe Guardian

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The Guardian
We Indigenous people are stronger than we believe, and smarter than we know
The Guardian
This honour in some way belongs to Indigenous parents and communities, across Australia, who are working with schools to deliver on the life-giving promise of a stronger smarter future. It also belongs to more than 2,000 school and community leaders in ...

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ABC Online
Australia struggling to improve placement of Indigenous children in care
ABC Online
A third of Indigenous children in out-of-home care are currently placed in non-Indigenous care, despite legislation and policy deeming it the last resort, a Productivity Commission report has shown.

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ABC Online
NAIDOC Week: First Indigenous nurse graduate among winners at 2016 awards
ABC Online
The first Indigenous person to graduate as a nurse and the man who turned a small Aboriginal dance company into an internationally-recognised organisation are among the Indigenous Australians honoured at this year's NAIDOC Awards in Darwin.

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ABC Online
Australia struggling to improve the placement of Indigenous children in care
ABC Online
The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement Principle (the Principle) asks Indigenous children to be placed with relatives first, then within their community, and failing that, in other Indigenous care. However, according to the ...
Australia, it's time. Open your eyes to reasondailytelegraph.com.au
A treaty with first Australians is divisive and dangerousThe Australian
Young Victorians show Aboriginal support9news.com.au
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ABC Online
NAIDOC 2016: Australia's first Indigenous Start-up Weekend aims to empower young business minds
ABC Online
Young Indigenous people will be encouraged to make their mark and create a ripple effect at Australia's first Indigenous Start-up Weekend later this month. Brisbane will host the not-for-profit event, which will run day and night for 54 hours and teach ...
Putting Indigenous imprisonment rates on the national agendaThe Age
Aboriginal struggle gets the silent treatmentWarrnambool Standard

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National Indigenous Times
[ July 7, 2016 ] Fabulous Five heading for Canberra to fight the fight NEWS
National Indigenous Times
It's been an extraordinary election for Indigenous Australia, with five MPs set to take seats in the new parliament, regardless of who forms government. Australian National University political expert Jill Sheppard says the proportion of MPs bound for ...

The Age
Putting Indigenous imprisonment rates on the national agenda
The Age
The Working Group conducting the dialogue accepted the recommendation of Kenya that Australia "intensify efforts in enhancing the rights of Indigenous Australians: by addressing the underlying causes of their plight, by providing opportunities in ...
Aboriginal struggle gets the silent treatmentWarrnambool Standard

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The Guardian
Indigenous Australians unfairly jailed due to racism in legal system – research
The Guardian
The primary recommendation of the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody was 'that imprisonment for Aboriginal people should be an option of last resort', according to Indigenous legal affairs expert Dr Stephen Gray. Photograph: Lloyd Jones ...

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dailytelegraph.com.au
Australia, it's time. Open your eyes to reason
dailytelegraph.com.au
As we drove into remote communities and set up eye camps, Aboriginal liaison workers on our teams introduced us to communities whose Australian ancestry traces back some 60,000 years. As a young woman I felt privileged to meet these people, and ...
Indigenous songlines: a beautiful way to think about the confluence of story and timeThe Guardian
NAIDOC Week: Encouraging young health workers 'would boost' Indigenous healthABC Online
Lukluk long setolmen long Australia long NAIDOC WikRadio Australia
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Grant invites debate on constitutional recognition of Indigenous people
The Sydney Morning Herald
On Wednesday, Grant visited the National Archives of Australia to view and hold the original Australian Constitution and the 1967 amendment that allowed the Commonwealth to make laws in relation to Indigenous people, and to include them in the census.

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ABC Online
Indigenous West Australians have highest death rate for asbestos-related disease: study
ABC Online
Indigenous West Australians have the highest death rate for malignant mesothelioma in the world, a study into asbestos-related diseases has found. Malignant mesothelioma is an aggressive form of cancer that can develop following inhalation or ingestion ...
Wittenoom's indigenous legacy: the world's worst mesothelioma rateScience Network Western Australia

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ABC Online
Meet Linda Burney, the first Indigenous woman elected to House of Reps
ABC Online
Will you be able to help Indigenous Australians? "It's going to be amazing when the Parliament returns. We will have three Aboriginal people in Labor caucus - myself, Pat Dodson and Malarndirri McCarthy from the Northern Territory. "They're all ...
Recognition on agenda for new MPwaateanews.com

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ABC Local
NAIDOC Week: American basketballer aims to inspire Indigenous youth
ABC Local
Livingston, who played in the USA's National Basketball Association for more than 10 years, has lived in Australia with his partner and son for the past four years. The self-described "NBA journeyman" was first drafted to the Houston Rockets in 1996 ...

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finder.com.au
ASIC wants to stop Indigenous Aussies being “ripped off”
finder.com.au
In support of Indigenous Australians and the furtherance of NAIDOC Week, the Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a set of instructional videos about financial decision-making. The advisory videos are part of ASIC's "Take ...

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Broadsheet
Corey Theatre Keeps Traditional Language Alive
Broadsheet
Words are important to Corey Theatre. So too is the preservation of Indigenous Australian languages. Theatre is on a mission to preserve them the best way he knows how. Through music. “That's what Aboriginal people used to do,” he says. “Store our ...

ABC Online
Election 2016: Indigenous MP Linda Burney labels One Nation founder Pauline Hanson 'ignorant'
ABC Online
The first Indigenous woman elected into the House of Representatives has labelled Pauline Hanson ignorant, after the One Nation founder's comments about Australia being "swamped by Asians". Linda Burney, the Labor MP for the southern Sydney seat of ...
Leading us into a new dawn of stupidityCourier Mail
What we can expect from Pauline HansonThe New Daily
Pauline Hanson's colourful career as she prepares to return to parliamentDaily Mail

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Mashable
8 Indigenous Australian films and TV series everyone should watch right now
Mashable
The cultural histories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are some of the oldest in the world, so it only makes sense their stories light up the screen. Indigenous Australian directors and actors are leading the charge when it comes to ...

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